/u/kanadskiy's posts in /r/AskHistorians
Why is there such a lack of records of pre-Christian Slavic beliefs (especially considering proximity to Greek and Latin peoples in the Balkans) compared to, say, Germanic religion?
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Why are there so few records of prechristian Slavic beliefs compared to Germanic and Hellenic paganism?
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Did the German elite know that Danzig was going to be "the thing" that started the war? If the Poles gave in like the Czechs, what was the plan after?
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Given that Germans formed the majority in Alsace-Lorraine (one census I saw even put them at around 80%) how was France able to govern A-L after WW1? What difficulties did they encounter in this largely German population?
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Say I'm a Canadian Infantryman deployed to Hong Kong during WWII, what are my chances of surviving the fall of the city and Japanese imprisonment?
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As a Child, Mussolini was Said to have been a violent bully. How much of that was truth and how much was allied propaganda/funny not entirely true fact?
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